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National chairman of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) Calin Popescu-Tariceanu says there is no medical justification for extending the state of alert in Romania, but there is "an electoral and business vested interest" of the rulers.
The ALDE leader proposes the intervention of the authorities where COVID-19 cases appear, the imposition of the state of alert at local level and he vows to oppose what he calls "blocking" the whole country.
According to Tariceanu, "the government must return to its role: leading the country, economic recovery, job creation, increasing pensions and allowances according to the law, fighting the effects of drought, restoring the irrigation system and a lot of other important things that they have abandoned out of a desire to milk the coronavirus for electoral gains."
President Klaus Iohannis said on Tuesday that the state of alert should be extended with fewer restrictions and called on lawmakers to vote on that.
